SIA

The Board of Directors of SIA, meeting under the chairmanship of
Giuliano Asperti, has examined and approved the Draft Financial
Statements at 31 December 2015.
In 2015, Grouprevenues
rose
to €449.4 million
with a growth of €23.1 million (+5.4%
)
over 2014. The Cardssegment
represents 49%
of
revenues, Institutional Services26%
and the Paymentssegment 25%
.
Also on the rise in 2015 was the gross
operating margin
which reached €123.9 million
with an
increase
of €1.3 million (+1.1%
) and the EBIT
which was €100.5
million,
€2.7 million higher than the year before (+2.7%
).Net
profit
also rose to €69.8 million
, growing by €4 million (+6.2%)
.
Another
highlight is the improvement in the net financial position
which
climbed to €108.7 million
with an increase of €33.2 million (+44%)
.
In
2015, the Group handled the overall settlement of 9.9 billion
transactions
(+7.7% compared to 2014), 3.3 billion card
transactions
(+11.2%) and 2.8 billion payment transactions
(+3.6%) relating to credit transfers and collections
.
On the financial
markets
, the number of trading and post-tradingtransactions
rose to 41.7 billion from the 30.2 billion of 2014, an increase of 38%.
SIA
handled a volume of traffic of 358 terabytes of data on the 180,000
km of the SIAnet network
, a rise of around 10% on 2014, with total
infrastructure availability and service levels of 100%
.
Thanks
to the results achieved in 2015, the Board of Directors will propose to
the Shareholders’ Meeting the distribution
of an ordinary
dividend for the financial year 2015 of €49.69 million corresponding to
€0.29 (+38% compared to 2014)
for each of the 171,343,227 shares.
In
addition, SIA set in motion the plan for a listing in the Mercato
Telematico Azionario (“MTA”), organized and managed by Borsa Italiana
S.p.A.,
which it is expected could take place by the close of
2016.

SIA
is European leader in the design, creation and management of
technology infrastructures and services for Financial Institutions,
Central Banks, Corporates and Public Administration bodies, in the areas
of payments, e-money, network services and capital markets. SIA Group
provides its services in over 40 countries, and also operates through
its subsidiaries in Hungary and South Africa.